Nazi Oppression Of Sports In The 1936 Summer Olympics

com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Olympic-Rings.png In 1936, the summer Olympics were hosted in Berlin. Hitler was the chancellor of Germany at the time, and the Nazis were in power. Before the Olympics, German Jews had been segregated and discriminated against by Aryan Germans. The 1936 Berlin Olympics were not righteous, fair, or unbiased in any way, shape, or form. Through the Olympics, Hitler spread his anti-Semitic views to millions of spectators and athletes that attended the Olympics. The Olympics were an extremely

Ethan Stamm Mr. Fradkin U.S. History II/P.6 3 April 2016 The History of the 1936 Olympics It’s 1931, and Germany is in a massive post World War I depression. The unemployment rate is at 70% and millions of Germans are jobless. People have lost hope and faith in their country, and Germany in itself is starting to lose respect worldwide. A glimmer of hope came when Berlin was chosen as the host city for the 1936 summer Olympics. This was two years prior to the appointment of Adolf Hitler as Chancellor

back against Hitler’s racial stereotypes of Blacks by winning four gold medals and becoming one of the worlds most successful athletes. Owens challenged Nazi ideology that African Americans were inferior because he used his skill to win four gold medals, which disproved the idea that African Americans were unsuccessful athletes. The biggest blow to Nazi ideology about African Americans was that the German crowd treated Jessie Owens as a hero whereby they chanted and cheered his name whenever he entered

leaders were Hitler (1889-1945), Mohandas Gandhi (1869-1948) and Marcus Garvey (1887-1940).Hitler, leader of the Nazi Party, punished Germany after they lost in World War I. He believed that germans were pure aryan people. Mohandas Gandhi, leader of the Independence Movement in Britain, was born October 2nd, 1869 and died on January 30th, 1948. He was known for his nonviolent approach to oppression. Marcus Garvey, Jamaican political leader, was born August 17, 1887 and died on June 10th,1940. He was known

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